Go to the batting leaderboards page at Fangraphs, filter the data being displayed to include the age 27 to 31 seasons for every player since 1950, and something quite remarkable happens. Something that ought to be better known to not just fans of the Toronto Blue Jays, but baseball fans in general.

The 15th-ranked player among that group, at 34.1 WAR, is one of just four active players among the top 30 on the list. Ranked just ahead of him, an indisputable group of Hall of Famers: Albert Pujols is 11th; Rickey Henderson follows; Rod Carew and Jeff Bagwell are 13th and 14th.

And behind him, ranked 16th through 22nd? Only Miguel Cabrera, Mickey Mantle, Gary Carter, Mike Piazza, Brooks Robinson, Ernie Banks and Willie McCovey. More Hall of Famers, in other words. Players who get statues made of them. Or roads and bodies of water named after them.

That active player who ranks between those two groups? Josh Donaldson.